[osint] Beheading in the Name of Islam Online
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4793D07C-A7AE-439F-8B9E- 54F345BF6F77 Beheading in the Name of Islam Online By file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/aut hors.aspx?Name=Joe Kaufman Joe Kaufman FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, January 10, 2008 Of all the crimes committed by extremist Muslims, the one that is arguably the most horrifying is the act of beheading. This month, Islam Online, a website that has mass popularity throughout the Muslim world, published a gruesome poem detailing how to behead a human being. In doing so, the site has revealed its own connections to the violent Islamic hatred that increasingly has found a home on the web. Islam Online first invaded the internet in November of 1999. Since then, the site has worked hard to support the terrorist infrastructure around the world. Today, with a few clicks of the mouse, one will find the transcripts of past forums - what Islam Online refers to as http://www.americansagainsthate.org/LiveDialogue.htm Live Dialogue sessions - on the site, giving terrorist operatives 'carte blanch' to get their views out. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders, including Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Mousa Abu Marzook, Sami Al-Arian and Rafiq Jaber, have all been given a voice to speak on Islam Online. As well, today, within Islam Online's fatwa or religious ruling section, one will find various statements advocating, and at times even mandating, the most hideous of violent acts. http://www.americansagainsthate.org/islamonlinefatwas.htm About suicide bombings, Islam Online states: Martyr operations are not suicide and should not be deemed as unjustifiable means of endangering one's life... [I]n martyr operations, the Muslim sacrifices his own life for the sake of performing a religious duty, which is jihad against the enemy... [T]he Palestinians resort to martyr operations, in which the martyr blows himself/herself up, sacrificing his life for the sake of his country... I believe that those missions are a sacred duty carried out in form of self-defense... So whoever is killed in such missions is a martyr, may Allah bless him with high esteem. http://www.americansagainsthate.org/islamonlinefatwas.htm About killing homosexuals, the site states: Some scholars hold the opinion that the homosexual should be thrown from a high building as a punishment for his crime, but other scholars maintain that he should be imprisoned until death. Based on the above fact, we can conclude that, the judge is invested with full discretion as to whether this man is to be thrown from a high place or not, as a punishment for his crime. However, if the man survives death fall, the judge has the right to sentence him to death. On January 1, to ring in the infidel New Year, Islam Online managed to outdo itself. It published a poem - and advertised it on all of its web pages, including its homepage - detailing the steps that one goes about to behead human beings. Here is exactly what the group posted, which is still up on its own page within Islam Online's 'Arts Culture' section: http://www.americansagainsthate.org/HowToBehead.htm How to Behead Hold him Tie the arms behind his back And bandage his legs together Just by the ankles Blindfold the punk So that he won't hesitate as much For on seeing the sharp pointy knife He'll begin to shake And continuously scream like an eedyat And jiggle like a jelly Trust me-this will sure get you angry It's better to have at least two or three brothers by your side Who can hold the fool Because as soon as the warm sharp knife Touches his naked flesh He'll come to know what'll happen It's not as messy or as hard as some may think, It's all about the flow of the wrist. No doubt that the punk will twitch and scream But ignore the donkey's ass And continue to slice back and forth You'll feel the knife hit the wind and food pipe But don't stop Continue with all your might. About now you should feel the knife vibrate, You can feel the warm heat being given off, But this is due to the friction being caused. The piece was written by Samina Malik, a 23-year-old female resident of the United Kingdom, who, this past November, was http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2831648.ece convicted of possessing documents likely to be used for terrorism under UK's Terrorism Act 2000. Documents found on her computer included: The Mujaheddin Poisoner's Handbook, Encyclopaedia Jihad, How To Win In Hand To Hand Combat, How To Make Bombs and Sniper Manual. During Malik's trial, it was reported that, on a social networking website, under the section titled 'Favorite TV Shows,' she wrote, Watching videos by my Muslim brothers in Iraq, yep the beheading ones, watching video messages by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri and other videos which show massacres of the kaffirs. As well, it was reported that she was an admirer of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the now deceased
[osint] Beheading in the Name of Islam
http://www.meforum.org/article/713 Beheading in the Name of Islam by Timothy Furnish Images of masked terrorists standing behind Western hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have become all too common on Arabic satellite stations such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar. Islamist websites such as Muntadiyat al-Mahdi[1] go further, streaming video of their murder. The February 2002 decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, true to its intention, horrified the Western audience. Chechen rebels, egged on by Islamist benefactors, had adopted the practice four years earlier,[2] but the absence of widely broadcast videos limited the psychological impact of hostage decapitation. The Pearl murder and video catalyzed the resurgence of this historical Islamic practice. In Iraq, terrorists filmed the beheadings of Americans Nicholas Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong. Other victims include Turks, an Egyptian, a Korean, Bulgarians, a British businessman, and a Nepalese. Scores of Iraqis, both Kurds and Arabs, have also fallen victim to Islamist terrorists' knives. The new fad in terrorist brutality has extended to Saudi Arabia where Islamist terrorists murdered American businessman Paul Johnson, whose head was later discovered in a freezer in an Al-Qaeda hideout. A variation upon this theme would be the practice of Islamists slitting the throats of those opponents they label infidels. This is what happened to Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, first gunned down and then mutilated on an Amsterdam street,[3] and to an Egyptian Coptic family in New Jersey after the father had angered Islamists with Internet chat room criticisms of Islam.[4] The purpose of terrorism is to strike fear into the hearts of opponents in order to win political concession. As the shock value wears off and the Western world becomes immunized to any particular tactic, terrorists develop new ones in order to maximize shock and the press reaction upon which they thrive. In the 1970s and 1980s, terrorists hijacked airliners to win headlines. In the 1980s and 1990s, the car bomb became more popular; Palestinian terrorists perfected suicide bombings in the 1990s. But what once garnered days of commentary now generates only hours. Decapitation has become the latest fashion. In many ways, it sends terrorism back to the future. Unlike hijackings and car bombs, ritual beheading has a long precedent in Islamic theology and history. Apologetics and Reality Some American commentators say that Islamist decapitations are intended as psychological warfare and devoid of any true Islamic content. Imam Muhammad Adam al-Sheikh, head of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, for example, claimed incorrectly that beheadings are not mentioned in the Koran at all.[5] Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, also misrepresented Islamic theology and history when she told a reporter, There is absolutely no religious imperative for this.[6] The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as well as the American Anti-Arab Discrimination Committee (ADC) have both signed on to a statement that such killings did not represent the tenets of Islam.[7] Sam Hamod, former director of the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., claimed that the Qur'anic passage on beheading unbelievers did not actually mean that people should be killed.[8] Such fulminations have had an effect: the Western news media has, perhaps as a result of political correctness or its own bias, twisted the reality of Islamic history and propagated such revisionism. With such apologetics, Western academics either display basic ignorance of their fields or purposely mislead. The intelligentsia's denial of any religious roots to the recent spate of decapitation has parallels in the logical back flips and kid-glove treatments in which many professors engaged in order to deny a religious basis for violent jihad.[9] Afsaruddin and Hamod aside, Islamists justify murder and decapitation with both theological citations and historical precedent. Decapitation in Islamic Theology Groups such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unity and Jihad) and Abu Abd Allah al-Hasan bin Mahmud's Ansar al-Sunna (Defenders of [Prophetic] Tradition)[10] justify the decapitation of prisoners with Qur'anic scripture. Sura (chapter) 47 contains the ayah (verse): When you encounter the unbelievers on the battlefield, strike off their heads until you have crushed them completely; then bind the prisoners tightly.[11] The Qur'anic Arabic terms are generally straightforward: kafaru means those who blaspheme/are irreligious, although Darb ar-riqab is less clear. Darb can mean striking or hitting while ar-riqab translates to necks, slaves, persons. With little variation, scholars have translated the verse as, When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.[12] For centuries, leading Islamic scholars have interpreted this verse literally. The
